About Us
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Go Reborn Magazine
Submission call - illustration / graphics
We'd like all y'all talented creatives to feature on our big, leafy pages. Therefore why not download (1mb) the relevant information on such a glorious union.
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Coming summer 2010: Go Reborn #3
We're switching platform for the next pop-up. We'll still be showcasing the best in arts, fashion, craft and design that Edinburgh and Scotland can muster, but with a lateral take on 'popping-up'. Email to find out more!
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December 2009! Princes Mall, Edinburgh
See inside here
Fashion lines from Godiva Boutique, Totty Rocks, Laura Lees, Rowan Roy, Red Mutha, Jukes+Proops, Tea at Aunties, Aware Injustice, Green Tees, Ceilidh Gray...
Art and design products from Elph, Twig, Stolen Thunder, Orangefishy, Dermographix, Charlie Anderson, Matthew Swan, Ross Christie, Robbie Porter, Neil Perry, Linda Matheson, Alibal, Aware Injustice, Nameless Wonders, Eka, Box Art...
Be inspired this Christmas, treat yourself and others while supporting local talented designers. Our unique store is situated in the heart of Edinburgh for the month of December.
Independent local boutiques, fashion designers and artists unite to offer the best of their one-off, distinct products and design in this exclusive, unequalled and truly original pop-up store bringing:
CLOTHING // ACCESSORIES // VINTAGE // CRAFTS // PRINTS // FURNISHINGS // ART // INSTALLATIONS
full flyer preview
We are inviting artists, creatives and craftspeople to become involved. Do you have a product to promote and sell that could fit the X-Mas mould and make a timely gift or stocking filler? We have rails to rent for the month or ample space to showcase your work and sell by commission through us. Preferably affordability is the key for this pop-up. Cards, dolls, garments, prints, bags and nik-naks a plenty. Our location is right on the catchment of the Winter Wonderland and German market in Princes St Gardens.
As usual the very nature of a pop-up means time is racing hastily towards the launch in December. Please get in touch (below) if you have the creative spark we so crave.
Rent a Rail at Go Reborn
(PDF 1.8Mb)
Alternatively artists can present work for a small administrative fee and commission on sales.
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August 2009
Introducing ‘go reborn’, Edinburgh’s pop-up guerrilla collective, who are bringing to the capital a collaborative and creative space & showroom for 21 days over the festival.
‘go reborn’, on the third floor of the ex-Venue on Calton Road, exhibits art, design, nu-media and crafts with local and national artists. ‘go reborn’ fashion designers work up live-painted canvases on-site, turning out finished accessories. Fashion workshops, visual artists and musicians inhabit seminars and events showcased in a top class space towering over the festival with a majestic view of the Crags.
· The ‘go reborn’ collective bring you their vision
· A trailblazing pop-up space for the Edinburgh Festival
· A creative time-out bubble for passing art lovers and fashion foragers
· A boutique with many of Godiva’s top designers showing and selling their beguiling garments
· Owl and Lion pop-up workshops
· Contributions from many of the city's finest independent stores
· Live canvas work, digital art, installations
· In-house graphic designers, photographers and nu-media specialists
CHECK OUT THE RESULTS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/go-reborn/show
Calendar
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Keep up to date with the twitter feed because things happen here before we evens knows it!
July '10
Go Reborn Magazine launches!
May - June '10
Our mobile unit will be attending creative events around Edinburgh and Scotland collecting content for the incoming magazine. Come say hello and grab an ice-cream or waffle!
Decemeber '09
1 - Opening, 11am
3 - Launch Party
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September '09
1-6 Reduced hours, 3pm-7pm daily, and reduced prices on art, books, music and furniture
6 - Closing party from 8pm with Discreet Unit (Firecraker Rec) playing an alternate 'fireworks' soundtrack
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August '09
11 - Opening, 12pm
14 - Launch Party 5pm-9pm featuring David Anderson's Peoplescape
15-18 - Neil Perry (Owl+Lion) live canvas
19-21 - Matthew Swann (ECA) + Kate Mackay (Edinburgh Printmakers) live canvas
22 - Elph live canvas - Edinburgh graf don in the house!!!
22 - 9pm, M.O.C + White Chocolate - Do It! members arrive from Aberdeen to put on an audio + visual feast. BYOB. Until late
28 - Canvas Tear Up
(Pic: August go reborn pop-up, Venue Studios)
Blog
http://www.dnanderson.co.uk/projects.html
go-reborn.blogspot.com
Daily updated diary from go-reborn's in-house scribe, Andrew Faraday Giles
Follow on Twitter - twitter.com/go_reborn
The Launch Party
The launch party has been and gone like a whirlwind. ‘go reborn’ was packed with revelling punters. Andy Thoms and his girls Ali and Marie did us proud by supplying (and serving) their world-famous Bilgewater Gin to soon-merry customers, and Jamie and the girls at Red Bull poured rum and vodka cocktails with lashings of lime juice and ice. Photographer Dave Anderson was on hand to take portrait photos of the ‘go reborn’ crew and their fellow party-goers in various states of gin-fuelled joy. The dressing room was a busy flow of people trying on Godiva’s reworked dresses (many made on-site in our workshop) and our artists fared well; Solas Nicol and Tom Hutchinson both sold their photographic prints to keen and admiring art-fans; Elliot Neave’s video of Claudia Massie painting the skyline was a sped-up, jerky work of art in itself; in the hot room, Aberdonian Ricky Gibbs’ interactive video installation looked brilliant.
There was a raddled atmosphere of shouts and cheers as folk perused the ‘go reborn’ project; a glaring success, certainly, and more importantly a happy ambience of like-minded folk brought together by the ever-glamorous Fleur MacIntosh and her ragtag collective of futurists. (AF Giles)
Party Pics 1
Party Pics 2
Party Pics 3
Party Pics 4
Location
WHERE TO FIND US:
Upper Level (old USC)
Princes Mall
Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1BQ
princesmall-edinburgh.co.uk
OPENING HOURS:
7 days, 11AM - mall close
google map
Contact
Fleur MacIntosh
Fashion / Craft / Accessory enquiries
Godiva Boutique T: 0131 221 9212
Jaco Justice
Art / Design / Installation enquiries
Stuart McMorris
Web
Press
list mag Q&A
the skinny says
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press release (28kb)
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godiva boutique
Godiva Boutique owner Fleur Macintosh has revolutionised the vintage and recycled fashion scene with a massively successful made-to-measure line currently flying off the rails. Her hardcore one-off mentality within Edinburgh’s fashion scene has been aped but never mastered, and this summer we take it a step further with the ‘go reborn’ initiative.
Pop-up culture is by nature elusive. But when it does appear, oozing out of the pavement cracks, something very special occurs. Think Fritz Lang-inspired Tunnel 228, a 15-day culture happening in the bowels of the English capital that shook London to its very core. Even The Clash’s Mick Jones has taken advantage of the supernatural pop-up beast and opened a temporary rock n’ roll library for treasure-hunting geek enthusiasts. Fashion weeks across the globe have started to embrace the pop-up culture, with surprise stores springing up in vacant lots across cities full of flamboyant one-off pieces. Anyone can enter a pop-up store, if they can find it, and its short-fused life is born, burns and dies like a comet, quick, frenetic, hot and brilliant. Pop-up is something that grabs its barrio by the scruff of the neck and shakes it - inspiring expression, community and rapture all round.
(afgiles)